| n. | 1. | A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. | |||
| 2. | A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor. | ||||
| 3. | A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. | ||||
| 4. | That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
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| Noun | 1. | horror - intense and profound fear |
| 2. | horror - something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him" | |
| 3. | horror - intense aversion |